A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories

A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories is the title of M. R. James' fourth and final collection of ghost stories, published in 1925.

A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories

First edition
Author	M. R. James
Language	English
Genre	Horror short stories
Publisher	Edward Arnold
Publication date	1925
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (hardback)
Preceded by	A Thin Ghost and Others
Followed by	The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James

Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936) was a medievalist scholar; Provost of King's College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. His stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions.

Contents of the original edition

• "The Haunted Dolls' House"
• "The Uncommon Prayer-Book"
• "A Neighbour's Landmark"
• "A View from a Hill"
• "A Warning to the Curious"
• "An Evening's Entertainment"

References

• "A Guide to Supernatural Fiction". Archived from the original on 19 February 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-29.
• Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 240.

Sources

• "M.R. James: free web books, online". Archived from the original on 30 September 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-11.

External links

• The full text of A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories at Wikisource
• A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories public domain audiobook at LibriVox